IT might be only January but Brisbane prop Korbin Sims is already thinking about the NRL finals.

Buoyed by a month of full contact training, Sims has his eyes firmly set on September action after recovering from a broken arm that had left his 2017 season in tatters.

Despite some anxious moments at pre-season training, Sims has gained confidence wearing a right-arm guard and is keen to tick the box which injury had denied him in an impressive 2017 debut season for the Broncos - playing finals footy.

After breaking his forearm a month out from last year’s playoffs, Sims cut a frustrated figure as Brisbane threatened to go all the way before being knocked out in the preliminary final by eventual premiers Melbourne.

There was more disappointment to come.

Sims was picked for Fiji’s Rugby League World Cup squad but missed the Bati’s shock run to the semi-finals after medical staff discovered his arm had not recovered and he was released without playing a game.

Korbin Sims of the Broncos is tackled.Source: AAP

“The first thing was missing finals - that was a big thing in me coming to the Broncos,” said Sims, who was a late arrival last year from Newcastle.

“I was a bit dirty at the timing of the injury but that’s football.

“And then missing the World Cup was a massive confidence downer for me.”

However, Sims is still confident of breaking his Broncos finals duck in 2018, despite their pack being decimated by the off-season departures of New Zealand skipper Adam Blair, Herman Ese’ese and Jai Arrow.

“There is a lot of hunger in this new group,” Sims told the Broncos’ website.